US Patent Issued to TOAGOSEI on Aug. 18 for "Binder for secondary battery electrode and use thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,185, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOAGOSEI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Binder for secondary battery electrode and use thereof" was invented by Tomoko Nakano (Nagoya, Japan), Masanori Hiromoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Naohiko Saito (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery electrode has excellent characteristics. As a binder for a secondary battery electrode, a crosslinked polymer or salt thereof having a carboxyl group is used. The crosslinked polymer or salt includes 30 mass % or more and not more than 100 mass % of a structural unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer and a metal ion co...